Prof Sara Hobolt

This course is available on the BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in History and Politics, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Data Science, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations, BSc in Politics and Philosophy and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Students must have completed Introduction to Political Science (GV101).

The course is divided into two parts; (i) Government and Politics: the EU as a political system, the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament, the Court of Justice and Judicial politics, public opinion and EP elections, parties and Europe, interest representation; (ii) Public Policy. Policy sessions usually include: the policy-making process, the Single Market, budgetary policies, redistributive policies, EMU, asylum, migration and refugee policies, social and employment policies, external relations policies, and others.

This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totalling a minimum of 41 hours across the Autumn, Winter and Spring Terms. This course includes reading weeks in Week 6 of both the AT and WT.

Two essays per term; students' preparedness for the examinations will depend on this written work and on private reading.

H Wallace, M Pollack & A Young (Eds), Policy-Making in the European Union, 8th edn (2020); N Nugent, Government and Politics of the European Union, 8th edn (2017); S Hix and B Hoyland, The Political System of the European Union, 3rd edn.

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the spring exam period.

GENERAL COURSE STUDENTS ONLY:

The Class Summary Grade for General Course students will be calculated as follows: 15% class participation, 80% formative coursework (each formative essay counts for 20%) and 5% attendance.

The Exam Grade for General Course students will be 100% exam.